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SAMIL 100 recovery.

The heavy recovery truck of the range, built with the standard cab or the Kwêvoël mine-protected cab.

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Sources & evidence
SAMIL 100 recovery — A SAMIL 100 recovery truck with the mine-protected Kwêvoël cab, 2017.Bob Adams from Amanzimtoti, South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
BASE VEHICLESAMIL 100 (1983–98)BUILT BYTruckmakers, Rosslyn, Pretoria, Magirus-Deutz, UlmOPERATED INSouth Africa, NamibiaPRODUCTIONNot publishedLAYOUT6 wheels · 207″

The record

The SAMIL 100 recovery truck took on the heaviest wheeled recoveries, including other SAMILs; in 2011 the SANDF was still buying tyres for its SAMIL 100 recovery vehicles.

Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.

Specification

MANUFACTURERTruckmakers, Rosslyn, Pretoria ↗, Magirus-Deutz, Ulm ↗
under licence from Magirus-Deutz
MANUFACTUREDNot published
ENGINEDeutz F10L 413F air-cooled V10 dieselDeutz F10L 413F
PRODUCTION RUNNot published
COUNTRY OF ORIGINSouth Africa
OPERATED INSouth Africa, Namibia
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINE100
FAMILY100
WHEELS6
NOMINAL WHEELBASE207″
CATEGORYMilitary · South Africa

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Variants & colours

Base model variants

Factory colours

  • Dark Earth

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

AI rendering impression

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Proportions, fittings, markings, colours and the setting can all drift from the original in the process. For the vehicle's actual details, rely on the specification, the photographs and the cited sources on this page.

Sources

  1. 1SAMIL 100 – Heavy utility truck ↗Military-Today.com (archived 2007) · accessed 2026-09-24SOURCE
  2. 2SAMIL 100 ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-24SOURCE
  3. 3SAMIL work adds to R1bn since 2007 (13 September 2011) ↗defenceWeb · accessed 2026-09-24SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-24 · status: draft